View from the rainforest floor
We don’t find much biodiversity around Chicago’s neighborhoods and parks, unless of course, you happen to stroll into Lincoln Park Zoo. But even the zoo can’t compare to the richness […]
Playing nice has its perks… if you’re a baboon
Nice guys might finish last, but what about nice girls? Being nice to others in baboon populations may mean a longer, healthier life for females according to a study by […]
Working to bring back the peregrine
It’s not very often you can follow along with scientists’ work. Typically you just read about it when the study results are released and someone like Scientific American breaks it […]
Biologist Dr. Barry Commoner dies at 95
Dr. Commoner was something of a hybrid scientist; he was a researcher and a professor, but he was also an activist. His resume includes biology professor, government researcher, environmental and […]
And you thought Venus Flytraps were cool…
But can they catapult their prey to their doom? I think not. The sundew has long been a very unassuming carnivorous plant. Species that live in the United States are […]
Harmonic oscillator Friday
Let’s close out the week with some physics…and a fun, hypnotizing video. Ordinarily, metronomes remind me of boring, interminable piano lessons (which were all the more painful because I hardly ever […]
More evidence of water from the Mars rover
Curiosity is sending evidence of a new discovery home to NASA. Images from the rover’s camera show what could be an ancient stream bed. Outcroppings of rock, named “Hottah” by NASA […]
When atomic scientists play with their building blocks
…they can sometimes create a new element. That seems to be the case in Japan, where researchers at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science say they’ve created element 113, a missing […]
An auction for space lovers
If you have a spare $340,000 you can own a piece of the moon. Too pricey? That’s okay – for $140,000 you can take home an iron meteorite discovered by […]
A deeper look from the Hubble Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope is proving that good things come to those who wait. It just produced the deepest look at the universe ever made by “staring” at the same […]
